Word: drawerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death, every detail of its history becomes sacred. He constantly tries to recreate the letter's origins, to determine whether his mother knew about its existence before he found her with it, and to trace its journey from the safe where it was first kept to the desk drawer where it was after his father's death. He says, "I did not see my mother actually find the letter. Come across it; locate it. I'm building backwards again." Toward the end of the novel, the boy has begun to assimilate his varying pictures of his father...
...letter written to me? What about that? (Passed to me in my sleep, a neglected dream, or it made too much sense, or made too much of me.) Safely deposited in a bank. Withdrawn to a drawer of the excellent desk in the living room exactly when...
...parents now have different priorities. Late that first night when I was back, I went to the kitchen to get a snack. For the only time in my memory, the fridge was empty. No longer did cold cuts spill out of the meat drawer. Gone were the two gallon jumbo containers of orange juice and the six packs of vanilla pudding. Lost forever were the leftover pieces of peach pie or the cold chicken...
Cheever regularly threw away sentences that lesser talents might have hoarded, had they been capable of writing them at all. As a first-time parent, he confided, "Sending a child off to nursery school is like sending your bottom drawer off to the board of health." He could mock others, wickedly: "Edmund Wilson has printed a collection of questionable short stories and in one there is a long description of carnal copulation which would have done carnal copulation irreparable damage if it hadn't been quite as deeply rooted." And he could make fun of himself, including his diminutive...
...legal request for prediction of documentsisn't a voluntary suggestion that, if the moodstrikes you, you open your top drawer and see whatjumps out," Jackson said. "There's a requirementthere that you look diligently...